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Hell yeah.
People in America actually think the world is only 5000~6000 years old.
/thread.
You're right. I believe its 5001~6001 years old!
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Hell yeah.
People in America actually think the world is only 5000~6000 years old.
/thread.
I think you have some excellent points here... but to me, these look like the effects of rapidly increasing stupidity, not the causes of it.
Any more ideas?
-- Paravani
I have to go with HG's POV more than with the concept of lower IQs. It is true that American is inreasingly being dumbed down, and I more and more believe that is by design for political expediency and selected opportunism, but that is a topic for another thread.
I think our problem is a value problem, not an intelligence problem. There was a time when the goal was not to appreciate (and subsidize) the lowered self esteem of those who make bad choices and wind up at the lowest end of the socioeconomic spectrum, but it lowered one's self esteem to not be able to support himself/herself and a family.
There was a time when we applauded those who succeeded and prospered rather than demonize them while we subsidize poor choices and failure.
There was a time when people started out poor but knew it was up to them to become unpoor. I was one of those actually. There was a time when we knew we were ignorant and made sure we became educated. There was a time when we knew we were handicapped by a lack of skills and references, and we did whatever we had to do, under whatever conditions we had to do it, to obtain marketable skills and good references so we could sell them.
Now the less we try, the more we are subsidized. It pays to be uneducated, unskilled, incapable, unindustrous.
(And to the smoke throwing machines out there, no I am not saying that all the poor are ignorant, incapable, or lazy. I am only saying that we reward such choices and behavior now when there was a time in America when we did not.)
I say we return to values and policy that does not force people to go hungry--we have never had such a policy--but in which the poor are encouraged to become unpoor through their own efforts as it once was and in which they are taught that it is possible to do so and given instruction on how to do it. Let's return to a policy in which real education, not indoctrination, is the norm. Let's worry a whole lot less about multiculturalism and political correctness and promote a whole lot more those institutions and values that once made America the remarkable nation it once was.
And then I think we will also again become among the world's best educated and smarted people as well as among the most prosperous, industrious, innovative, creative, productive, and generous. And nobody will be legitimately inspired to start a thread about dumb Americans, a concept we all can empathise with now.
Just look at the posters here who, despite having had years of access to the truth (er, a dictionary), still insist that Obama is "a Kenyan Muslin socailist facist".
I think nutrition of pregnant women and children have a LOT to do with it. (And it is Red Staters that birth those babies when they are still teens). Ban junk food and expand WIC to have a national Wheels on Meals type program delivering 3 nutritious meals to pregnant women and children 16 and under daily. The future national IQ (and teeth) depend on sugar free meals.
Regards from Rosie
We? No. I'm not getting stupider. you might, but I am not.
Stop paying for peoples kids who can't afford them.
How will that increase intelligence levels?
If you have to ask...then you are one of THOSE people.
Stop paying for peoples kids who can't afford them.
How will that increase intelligence levels?
Stupid people who work at Subway won't have 4 or 5 kids.
Proof that people are becoming more stupid: the popularity of MTV.
How will that increase intelligence levels?
Stupid people who work at Subway won't have 4 or 5 kids.
So if we "stop paying for them" they'll stop having kids? They're too stupid for that to happen, remember.
Stupid people who work at Subway won't have 4 or 5 kids.
So if we "stop paying for them" they'll stop having kids? They're too stupid for that to happen, remember.
A big reason they have so many kids is because their government benefits increase, without any cash coming in why would they even want any kids?
Just look at the posters here who, despite having had years of access to the truth (er, a dictionary), still insist that Obama is "a Kenyan Muslin socailist facist".
I think nutrition of pregnant women and children have a LOT to do with it. (And it is Red Staters that birth those babies when they are still teens). Ban junk food and expand WIC to have a national Wheels on Meals type program delivering 3 nutritious meals to pregnant women and children 16 and under daily. The future national IQ (and teeth) depend on sugar free meals.
Regards from Rosie
This entire post is the absolute proof of the subject matter of the thread, but the first clue is bolded and sized. Incredible.
More regards from Qantrill.
Or the fact that so many posting on this thread have such poor reading comprehension, they don't have a clue about what this thread is about?
Just look at the posters here who, despite having had years of access to the truth, still insist that Obama is "a Kenyan Muslin socailist facist".
I think nutrition of pregnant women and children have a LOT to do with it. (And it is Red Staters that birth those babies when they are still teens). Ban junk food and expand WIC to have a national Wheels on Meals type program delivering 3 nutritious meals to pregnant women and children 16 and under daily. The future national IQ (and teeth) depend on sugar free meals.
Regards from Rosie
So if we "stop paying for them" they'll stop having kids? They're too stupid for that to happen, remember.
A big reason they have so many kids is because their government benefits increase, without any cash coming in why would they even want any kids?
So.. Is there a poll or something that I missed, in which, these people were asked if they were more likely to have a litter children because of benefits?
Or is that just a "guess"?